Toni Kooy
Compassionate evidence-based care for emotional well-being
LPC Colorado
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Toni
Toni Kooy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who helps people address stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and mood-related challenges.
Background and approach
With a career spanning two decades, she brings practical strategies and compassionate listening to support clients working through panic, bipolar symptoms, guilt and shame, parenting strains, career pressures, and other emotional difficulties. Her practice emphasizes both short-term and longer-term goals so clients can see measurable steps forward while exploring deeper patterns that contribute to distress.
Kooy blends evidence-based tools with a client-centered stance, using approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to strengthen emotion regulation and decision-making. She also has training in EMDR for trauma processing and draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when appropriate.
Her background includes extensive work in community mental health and substance use settings since 2004, and academic training in psychology and counseling from the University of Colorado. Clients working with Toni can expect a nonjudgmental, flexible practitioner who integrates life experience and clinical training to tailor treatment to each person’s goals and needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Toni uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice and reframe unhelpful thoughts and develop practical behaviors that support emotional goals; this approach often suits anxiety, panic, and mood-related concerns. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can strengthen self-esteem and improve decision making. When trauma is a primary concern, she may integrate EMDR techniques to assist with processing traumatic memories and reducing their impact on daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each client to explore goals, preferences, and the nature of the difficulty, then tailors interventions and adjusts methods as progress unfolds. Clients and therapist regularly review what is helping and adapt the plan together to find the best fit.
Online therapy with Toni is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different lifestyles and schedules. These formats make it easier to access licensed professionals from home or other convenient locations, support continuity of care when life is busy, and allow a mix of real-time and text-based options depending on comfort and therapeutic needs.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Colorado
Languages
English